[Solved] Pin programs to taskbar windows 7 style

Hello,

I am in the process of trying to find myself a new desktop environment as gnome, kde and unity seem all to be going into a direction I am not comfortable with. So, I have now been tinkering with xfce (xubuntu 11.10) for a day or two, and it seems to be pretty close what I am looking for. Except for one little thing:

With the current wide screens I typically want to keep the taskbar vertical, and with such a setup, I find the windows 7 way of being able to pin the shortcuts in the taskbar very practical. Tried googling a bit, but it seems that most of the solutions are either old/unsupported or buggy in xfce (dockbarx, talika). I have yet to look what AWN could do. However, the most promising what I found was the taskbar-plugin I found in xfce-git repos:

If I have understood correctly, that would be a plugin to the original xfce-panel, which would be nice. So, as I could not find that in any apt-get repos, I tried to compile that from the source and got a lot of missing packages that I would guess imply that the source is for some other xfce version (I run 4.8).

So, before I decide whether I next give a look to AWN, try to fix the taskbar-plugin or take a look of lxde, I wonder if anyone could have some easier solutions for this issue?

Thanks, and see below the error message I get when I try to compile the plugin:

$ sudo makecc -fPIC -I. `pkg-config --cflags-only-I gtk+-2.0 exo-1 libwnck-1.0 libxfce4panel-1.0 libxfce4ui-1 libxfconf-0` -c -o taskbar.o taskbar.cPackage exo-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `exo-1.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variableNo package 'exo-1' foundPackage libxfce4ui-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfce4ui-1.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variableNo package 'libxfce4ui-1' foundPackage libxfconf-0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libxfconf-0.pc'to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variableNo package 'libxfconf-0' foundtaskbar.c:6:21: fatal error: exo/exo.h: No such file or directorycompilation terminated.make: *** [taskbar.o] Error 1

Re: [Solved] Pin programs to taskbar windows 7 style

If you're considering AWN, you may want to look at cairo-dock. The full version will pull in all of the plugins and it tries to bring in nautilus / a ton of GNOME crap, but if you install just the core components and a couple of plugins that you want, it works beautifully and minimally. I'm on Debian Wheezy with XFCE, I love it. You can just copy and past this into terminal:

Re: [Solved] Pin programs to taskbar windows 7 style

Hi guys I really love this plugin, but it seems to not always respect the system icon-theme for the applications and it pretty much always set and icon of an higher resolution than needed, causing it to scale bad.Is there a way to correct those behaviour (without putting manually all the icons in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/taskbar?